Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Using AutoRunScript in Metasploit

Metasploit offers another great feature of using AutoRunScript. The AutoRunScript option can be populated by issuing the show advanced command. AutoRunScript automates post-exploitation, and executes once access to the target has been achieved. We can either set the AutoRunScript option manually by issuing set AutoRunScript [script-name], or by using the resource script itself, which automates exploitation and post-exploitation together. AutoRunScript can also run more than one post-exploitation script by using the multi_script and multi_console_command modules as well. Let us take an example where we have two scripts, one for automating the exploitation and the second for automating the post-exploitation, ...